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A THIEF'S REQUEST OF AN OFFICER.

"Just keep an eye to them things," said Barney Barry, a peddler, as he dumped three bags of oats at Officer Belger's feet on the corner of Jersey and Newark avenues, Jersey City, early yesterday morning.

January 19, 1884

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